Pirates know they can get their treasure if they are willing to be creative with "how".
Pirates know that fear is the most deeply rooted emotion in the brain. To change our own mind, our "how" we do things, we need to face our own fears and be cognitively and spiritually courageous.
To lead others we need to acknowledge the fears of others. Pirates know that it takes a great deal of courage to face personal fears. It takes even more courage to lead people past personal fears.
This is the charge of the Pirate leader:
To help the crew face and move past their own fears.
This is so much like leading horses. Horses follow the head of the herd. If there is no head horse, the horses can become stranded.
A good pirate has to be a good head-horse.
Check out this video of four amazing women pirates who led 200 horses off an island where they were stranded. Watch closely...they only have to really lead the first two or three horses, then all the rest will follow.
Once they are moving, following a horse they trust, they are no longer afraid.
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And I heard the other day that the "how" only happens if the "what" is important enough... otherwise, I think we get stuck in the mundane, eh?
Saving horses... that's a pretty big "what".
Linda
I love this! I hope you don't mind, but I am going to borrow part of this, and give you credit! I am president of my DD's school PTA, and we are using pirates as our theme this year. I was searching for a good pirate quote about leadership, and this is EXACTLY what I need! We are implementing "The Leader in Me" program using the 7 habits of highly effective kids. I am using this quote in our newsletter to tie the pirate theme into the leadership idea. BTW-I love your blog! Glad it was here! Did you think when you wrote it that this long after, someone would find it and it would be just what they wanted to find? Funny how that works! Thanks to the internet LOL!
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